The Borrowers. With Illustrations

by Diana Stanley by Mary Norton

£550 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: J.M. Dent, 1952. Children's Illustrated FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo 21 x 15cm , pp.159; 1 . With wood engravings printed in red by Diana Stanley, as well as a chromolithographic frontispiece. Red wood engraved illustrations to endpapers. Publisher's blue cloth with red titles and illustrations to spine. With the dust-jacket, also illustrated by Stanley. A very good copy in jacket, which is chipped to corners and spine ends. Winner of

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